by Yaaqub Mohamed a.k.a Yamo4
Let’s say on an average you commute 2 hrs everyday (to and from work) – which I do. So, that’s 10 hours a week and roughly 520 hours a year. If an average audiobook is about 8 hours in length, then technically you can listen to 65 books in a year!
Well, practically speaking that might be a lofty goal. You will also have to mix in music, podcasts, reading or just observing strange behaviors of your fellow-commuters. Right?
However, what about a goal of listening to 7 books? Much more achievable, eh?
If you have never heard of audiobooks and you always thought listening was for music and radio only, think again! Your world of learning is about to change. Click to continue
by Jamie Clouting5
A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from. [i]
The BABOK describe 34 techniques for business analysts to aid them in their pursuit of capturing better requirements and designing better solutions. This blog post will look at prototyping and how it can be used more effectively in a business analyst’s armory. Click to continue
by Laura Brandenburg3
Are you starting a new business analyst project? Are you wondering how to get started without reinventing the wheel?
While some business analysts work in organizations with formalized processes and documentation requirements for their software projects, others start with a blank slate. Most of the established business analysts I know carry a set of business analyst templates with them that they’ve added to over time, essentially enabling them to embody their best ideas about how to do business analysis into every document they use. Click to continue
by Yaaqub Mohamed a.k.a Yamo9
Either by choice or chance, as business analysts we get involved in sustaining innovation – Innovation that helps companies improve the performance of existing products and services along the dimensions that the business values.
So, our proximity to innovation is intimate.
What is disruptive innovation? Click to continue
by Jonathan Nituch12
As a business analyst, how important are opportunities to perform enterprise analysis to you? For most BAs this work is highly coveted. Who wouldn’t want to ascend beyond the tactical project requirements and become involved in the strategic decisions? Moreover, there is also a sense that you can contribute value at that level. This is probably the truer driver.
In this blog, I’ll take a look at the reasons why you should be interested in enterprise analysis and some tips on how you can become involved in this exciting aspect of Click to continue
Yamo is a passionate and practicing business analyst, author, and blogger from Toronto, Canada. He hosts this blog, and podcast to help business analysts throughout the world, do analysis better, by providing educational, relevant, and inspiring content.